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by layer8 902 days ago
It’s strange that the syntax is not afraid of using non-ASCII Unicode characters (e.g. « », ≤, ≈, ƒ) but then uses the ASCII digraphs /\ and \/ for logical AND and OR instead of ∧ and ∨.
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ksherlock 902 days ago
Maybe Crockford is a Mac guy. It looks like all the extended characters are in the MacRoman set and -- on a mac keyboard -- typing ƒ is no more difficult than typing F. ∧ and ∨ are not easily available.
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Turing_Machine 902 days ago
Yeah, all of those seem to be readily available, at least on the US Mac keyboard layout.

ƒ is ⌥f, « and » are ⌥\ and ⌥| respectively, ≤ is ⌥<, ≥ is ⌥>, and ≈ is ⌥x.

Edit: for non-Mac people, ⌥ is the "Option" key. Option+f gives you ƒ, and so on.

> ∧ and ∨

Well, you could always add them to Favorites on the "Emoji and Symbols" popup.

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JackMorgan 902 days ago
I had the same thought, also may as well add in set operations like ∪, ∩, △
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